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- TECHNOLOGY
- February 5, 2019
With antivirus tools increasingly wise to common infection tricks, one group of extortionists has taken the unusual step of stashing their ransomware inside its own virtual machine. According to Vikas Singh, Gabor Szappanos, and Mark Loman at Sophos, criminals have slotted the file-scrambling Ragnar Locker nasty into a virtual machine running a variant of Windows
READ MOREUp to 222,000 people in England may be infected with the coronavirus right now, according to a government testing survey, while scientists estimate that a third of the population have already had it and recovered. The first round of random public testing has identified only 33 positive cases of COVID-19 out of a sample of 10,705
READ MORENadine Dorries, the junior health minister who became the first MP to contract the Covid-19 coronavirus, has confirmed her mother has also been infected. Ms Dorries confirmed on Tuesday she had tested positive for the virus, which has infected almost 800 people in the UK, and that officials were working to trace its further spread with
READ MOREA doctor has advised hospitals to prepare for up 96 million coronavirus infections and 500,000 potential deaths as a worst-case scenario for the potential extent of the outbreak, leaked documents reveal. The documents, obtained by Business Insider, come from a presentation made during a webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association (AHA). Dr James Lawler, a professor at
READ MORERoundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that’s fit to print and that we haven’t covered yet. T-Mobile US says hackers broke into customer info T-Mobile US prepaid account holders got some unwelcome news this week when their wireless carrier admitted on Friday it was compromised by miscreants who would have been
READ MOREProstates are usually talked about in relation to cancer, and whilst this is the most common cancer in men – affecting roughly 1 in 8 men – it is not the only medical problem that your prostate could face. Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland and it’s one of the most common urological
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